Quark's

StarTrek.website have been using the !startrek@startrek.website logo instance-wide since the beginning, and since we have been seeing above-average growth lately, the admin team figured it was time to zhuzh up our lil' Webzone with it's own identity:

...Get it?

We also have (mostly) completed a project I've been working on since the beginning, exclusive StarTrek.website custom animated emojis! Introducing:

I've-had-enough-of-your-nonsense Data:

I-would-like-more-of-your-nonsense Riker:

Are-you-shitting-me Tuvok

...And much, much more!

To use these, look here while making a post or comment:

Make it known around the Fediverse that you are a Website™ user! Characters from other series will be added periodically in the future (aka when I find the time)!

As always, thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping us live! If you are interested in helping out with the bills, we have just one plan and it's $4.

Over the past few days, I have received 2 identical scam direct messages from freshly created accounts on different instances (I immediately blocked user and messaged instance admins, with no response yet), namely aggregatet.org and feddit.rocks. I was wondering if others had experienced this issue, so I could see if it was an escalating issue.

Very cool to see this topic in a place like Forbes, IMO.

So I’ve just registered here, new to lemmy and all. Any useful links and tips I should know about ?

This is possibly Star Trek-adjacent news:

In addition to continuing to lead drama development, Seabury’s expanded EVP role will include overseeing content strategy with an emphasis on franchise building and leveraging and identifying new and existing IP across broadcast, streaming and other emerging media. He’ll continue to implement strategic roadmaps for the Studio’s producer and pod deals, and now collaborate across departments and divisions to find innovative opportunities for storytellers.

Titles and franchises that Seabury and his team have developed and shepherded include this year’s breakout series Matlock. He also helped oversee the expansion of the NCIS franchise, with NCIS: Origins and NCIS: Tony & Ziva, as well as series including Elsbeth, Evil, the Star Trek franchise, Fire Country and its new spinoff Sheriff Country, the upcoming Happy Face for Paramount+, among others.

I've once again noticed a delay of 10-12 hours with Lemmy.world. I just wanted to make sure someone's aware.

Glory to your houses, admins, and thanks for maintaining this instance.

We were previously on 19.5, so this is a double update. You can see the changes here. Most of the update is some back end stuff, ~~we are also looking into some federation delay with instances that haven't updated yet~~. The Federation delays appear to have been resolved on our end.

I’m wondering as a relative fediverse noob - are there any known issues when federating with lemmy.world?

I ask because I run a They Might Be Giants community there that I created with an alt account and moderate with my account on this instance, in part because as giant as they may be, I feel like a They Might Giants community doesn’t fit this instance (if I am wrong, might consider migrating it).

I made a post ~14 hours ago and it still hasn’t shown up on other instances. I’m guessing it’s either lemmy.world is a ginormous instance or it’s still on 19.3. I just find it weird because I’ve made posts without problems before.

Anyhow, glory to the admins of this instance; they honor their houses.

This instance has defederated from hexbear.net for violating our rules against propaganda as outlined in our Terms of Service. If you are unfamiliar, federation means two servers sync and host each other's content. Defederation stops us from syncing their content to our server.

I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit's platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.

The consensus I've seen on Lemmy has been largely "we don't need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there". So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can't rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.

I don't know if there are any Snap players amongst the startrek.website community, but I've created a loosely Star Trek-themed Alliance, if that's something you'd be into.

Just paste the following into Alliance Search: [UFP] Delta Shift

I’ve thought it would be nice to have a venue to discuss Trek comics, but I’ve always felt it would be weird to reference non-canon/dubiously canon stuff from a less popular medium in a main Star Trek thread.

Thus, I was wondering if this server has sufficient interest in such a thing to create a new community just for Star Trek comics.

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/4064398

No size change as a result of the polls

68% of the canvas has pixels on it, lets try to get it filled!!

24h - 72h Timelapses:

• PeerTube: https://sc07.tv/w/6nRzZhVtyPCmJfSoPJC7tn
• YouTube: https://youtu.be/diwHyJTvb0k
• Raw File: https://cdn.sc07.company/canvas/2024/24-72.mp4

go place pixels!

• https://canvas.fediverse.events/
• https://canvas.fediverse.events/
• https://canvas.fediverse.events/
• https://canvas.fediverse.events/

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/4031774

If there's any interest in carving out a corner of Canvas 2024 in the name of startrek.website, feel free to use this thread to coordinate!

Looks like it's a done deal (serious this time), though there's technically a 45-day window for someone to make a better offer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)

one

• Founders - Change shape
• Thing - Change shape

two

• Founders - live in a giant soup and can split off from the soup at will
• Thing - Can divide up the shape at any time into autonomous functional groups

three

• Founders - Fly in space ships
• Thing - Flies in massive space ship

four

• Thing - Doesn't like fire
• Founders - who likes fire?

I posit that the founders are the Thing, but perhaps a group of founders operating in special operations mode. Or they could be children out on founder Rumspringa like Odo was.

EDIT 3: **Due to some bugs we're delaying this feature until Lemmy 0.19.6 is released! **

The goal of c/Quarks has always been to help foster a sense of community for StarTrek.website, but it is just a generic "offtopic" community and does not really have an identity of it's own on the Fediverse.

Thanks to the new feature in Lemmy 19.4, we can create true "local only" communities. And Quark's can be what it was originally intended to be, a place for our users. This will allow us to better discuss what kind of experience users of this instance wish to have (not just provide) without all the dorks on less cool instances coming here and ruining our weather control network.

EDIT: to those of you concerned about missing out on "trek-adjacent discussion" @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website has indicated they plan on loosening the "on topic" rule of /c/StarTrek to include more of that.

EDIT2: If anyone is interested in growing and operating a community on our instance, please feel free to reach out or comment here!

In case you weren't sick of this merry-go-round yet.